^{Can’t get the stink off
He’s been hanging round for days
Comes like a comet
Suckered you but not your friends
One day he’ll get to you
And teach you how to be a holy cow}

You do it to yourself, you do
and that’s what really hurts
You do it to yourself, just you
you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself

Don’t get my sympathy
Hanging out the 15th floor
changed the locks three times
He still comes reeling through the door
one day i’ll get to you
And teach you how to get to purest hell

You do it to yourself, you do
and that’s what really hurts
You do it to yourself, just you
you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself

You do it to yourself, you do
and that’s what really hurts is
You do it to yourself, just you
you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself, yourself, yourself.

One of my all time favourite covers

Birds flying high
You know how I feel
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel
Reeds drifting on by
You know how I feel
It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life
For me..
And I’m feeling good

Fish in the sea
You know how I feel
River running free
You know how I feel
Blossom in the trees
You know how I feel
It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life
For me…
And I’m feeling good

Dragonfly out in the sun
You know what I mean, don’t you know
Butterflies all having fun
You know what I mean
Sleep in peace
When, the this day is done
And this old world
Is a new world
And a bold world
For me…

Stars when you shine
You know how I feel
Scent of the pine
You know how I feel
yeah, freedom is mine
And you know how I feel
It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life
For me…

yeah, ooh
Oh, ooh…

Oooh, ooh..free, free loving you…
Oooh, oooh
Feeling good

Dreaming I can see the sun
Long gone with time to run
Make my day, come on let me out
Can I open the door and begin to shout

Now I’d like to know
Can we get up and go?
Now I’d like to know
Can we get up and go?

Take my money and have a ball
It suits you right to have it all
Aiming for the bottom’s never been my choice
Can I open the door and begin to voice

Now I’d like to know
Can we get up and go?
Now I’d like to know
Can we get up and go?

Now I’d like to know
Can we get up and go?
Now I’d like to know
Can we get up and go?

I’d like to know
I’d like to know
I’d like to know
I’d like to know

The video is also fantastic, proving that great music videos can be done on a small budget

[I]

Smiled that kind of icy blue smile of a noonday
Reckoning, the tied together two of tell-tale pictures
I’ve sketched in sand castle plots and plans. similar
Starting points, both for sin and shooting blanks. but
It’s always the unseen sharp pang; the awkward rhythm
Of the dance like a tick-tock clock in that heart of
Hearts repeating, “there is no happy here, there is no
Happy here…” devil may care touches trickled down
Spine, thigh, and breast may never truly illuminate
The finer art of heartwork.

[II]

I was turning over with the sheets, and facing the
Arched back thinking of how my eyes, half-opened,
Caught her arm moving from side to side, but never to
Me. it’s all connected by blank words to tell empty
Promises of clumsy miscommunication. so we say what we
Will, to see what we may, to find a Biblical knowing
Enfolded within the next few hours. it’s too bad, too
Tragic… I spent myself choking on the motions
Leading up to said misfortune.

There’s a weight over me today,
it’s something I have to say,
love you too much to leave,
don’t like you enough to stay.

My heads in a mess
and I’m stressed
but i guess its a test in the quest for happiness
and the rest of that mess
so i best just acquiesce
even though I’ve grown tired of you

And that ain’t meant to sound spiteful
I’m just trying to be insightful
when i write all my emotions
In the night all the stuff I try to fight
just comes out and the sad fact is I’m so tired of you

Love, its a weird thing ain’t it?
there’s no way to explain it
but i swear as well as pain
there should be joy but we sustain
the same level of mundane
and its numbing me through

i often wonder if I’d miss you
and have the urge to kiss you
if an issue was to hit through
to this heart that now feels disused
and said issue was too big to just ignore
and i walked out on you

the chances are I’d fall apart
and suffer seizures of the heart
as my chest begins to smart
the very second have to part
i want to go back to the start
but then again maybe I’d just feel new
maybe I’d get my life on track
and start to focus my attack
on all the things my life just lacks
and start to claw my passion back
instead of living like a hack
half committed half relaxed
id have nothing to lose

There’s a weight over me today
it’s something I have to say
love you too much to leave
don’t like you enough to stay

There’s a weight over me today
it’s something I have to say
love you too much to leave
don’t like you enough to stay

I guess lately I’ve had too much time to think
and yeah way too much drink
when paper meets the ink
over thinking is the chink in my armour
that’s just what i do.

And I’ve always been that way,
forever questioning each day,
and every plea that’s made,
that maybe when i lay my busy mind will make me prove,
by finding problems and reasons,
that might not be true.(?)

See we got together so young,
before our real lives had begun,
but flowers don’t grow up as one,
each finds its own way to the sun,
and that’s exactly what we’ve done.

We’ve grown up separately too,

And for a few years now it’s been the problem,
and these realisations,
i wish that i could stop them,
but I’ve realised that love is all we have in common,
and deep down you know that’s true.

But then surely that I’m still in love with you,
means there’s something we can do,
to get us through and to pursue,
a brand new point of view on how this gap grew,
between me and you.

So there’s a weight over me and i’d hate to have to leave
but in fate i don’t believe and the state of you and me,
isn’t great as you can see…..
so i’ll keep thinking this through.

There’s a weight over me today
it’s something I have to say
love you too much to leave
don’t like you enough to stay

There’s a weight over me today
it’s something I have to say
love you too much to leave
don’t like you enough to stay

There’s a weight over me today
it’s something I have to say
love you too much to leave
don’t like you enough to stay

Je passe mon temps à chercher, à découvrir les autres
sans jamais toucher l’autre, à me blesser contre le
vide qui m’entoure. Seul face à mon miroir, dans les
draps de ces jours absents, je marche sur l’écho de
cette vie de malheur où
l’on retire aux gens ce qui
fait leur bonheur. Toute proche de moi, peut-être pour
longtemps mais toujours aux abonnés absents, elle
manque à mes yeux. J’erre seul. Je profitais, je
goûtais les choses sans remette en cause, je flânais,
une fois, mille fois, trop sûr de moi. Et je me
surprenais, à lui dire des choses sans cacher les
causes, et ça me touchait, une fois, mille fois,
jamais sans toi. Je profitais, je goûtais les choses
sans remette en cause, je flânais, une fois, mille
fois, trop sûr de moi. Et je me surprenais à omettre
des choses, à cacher les causes, et ça me blessait,
une fois, mille fois, à jamais sans toi.

So long sitting here,
Didnt hear the warning.
Waiting for the tape to run.
Weve been moving around in different situations,
Knowing that the time would come.
Just to see you torn apart,
Witness to your empty heart.
I need it.
I need it.
I need it.

Through the wire screen, the eyes of those standing outside looked in
At her as into the cage of some rare creature in a zoo.
In the hand of one of the assistants she saw the same instrument
Which they had that morning inserted deep into her body. she shuddered
Instinctively. no life at all in the house of dolls.
No love lost. no love lost.

Youve been seeing things,
In darkness, not in learning,
Hoping that the truth will pass.
No life underground, wasting never changing,
Wishing that this day wont last.
To never see you show your age,
To watch until the beauty fades,
I need it.
I need it.
I need it.

Two-way mirror in the hall,
They like to watch everything you do,
Transmitters hidden in the walls,
So they know everything you say is true,
Turn it on,
Dont turn it on,
Turn it on.

Listen Here

things are feeling thin i know, i know
lost my seat again where i’ll go, i’ll go,
pushing in the pin
i know, i know
we’re gonna go back in
we’re gonna go go go

[Chorus x4 (a lot of bahs and dontos)]

i like to sleep with them
pushing in the pin
i like to sleep with them
i know, i know
we’re gonna go back in
we’re gonna go go go
we’re gonna go back in
we’re gonna go go go

[Chorus x4]

=]

^{I fucking LOVE Karen O}

intravenously polite it was the walkie-talkies
that had knocked the pins down
as their shoes gripped the dirt floor
in the silhouette of dying
dancing on corpses’ ashes

yeah, they had plans for him
they has spun the last of the pimps
polyester, satin nailed jewelry lips
while the guillotine just laughed again
dancing on the corpses’ ashes

paramedics fell into the wound
like a rehired scab at a barehanded plant
an anesthetic penance beneath
the hail of contraband

they had been defected and excommunicated
and all the pulses were subverted
and they made sure the obituaries
showed pictures of smoke stacks

a vivid dissection that mocked
the strut of vivisection
semi-automatic colonies
and a silencing that still walks the streets

in the company of wolves
was a stretcher made of
cobblestone curfews
the federales performed
their custodial customs quite well

callous heels
numbed in travel
endless maps made
by their scalpels

on my way
nails broke and fell
into the
wishing well

just beeaaautiful

=]

I’m in a constant state of getting cut
So why don’t I feel anything?!

This is a violation

Maybe I forgot what it was like
Before it entered me

So this is what they call
Another endless night
So tired of believing
If this is wrong or right
I think this cause is lost
I wish that I could sleep
I feel like some kind of shadow
Another slave to the weak
Imagine if we lived
Under the weather
We would never be found
Never discovered
If everything goes wrong
If it’s one more endless night
You know there always tomorrow
And tomorrow (x8)
you know there’s always tomorrow
Tomorrow

And this knife, this knife
This is my most
This is my most
This is my most
Important appendage
This is my most
This is my most
This is my most
Important appendage

Tomorrow
Tomorrow
Tomorrow

So now that your whole world
Has gone up into flames
This night is still never ending
Do you think you’re still safe?
Seems everything went wrong
We were discovered
But this time there’s no tomorrow
And tomorrow(x4)
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
And this knife! This knife!